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competition for a fledgling
school, parents say.
Vivian Honig, who has a child
in kindergarten and another in
eighth grade, said a Conserva-
tive high school was not a con-
sideration when she moved into
the community. For it to be an
option for her youngest child, the
school would have to offer more
than a sound Judaic education.
"I won't send my child just be-
cause it is a Jewish school. I
want to know what it will offer
my child," she said.
For example, her son Daniel
recently placed in the top 5 per-
cent of participants in a nation-
al math competition. When he
attends North Farmington High
School in the fall, he will take
honors classes.
"This school (Hillel high
school) is going to be competing
with the likes of North Farm-
ington, West Bloomfield and An-
dover high schools," she said. "It
has to offer as much or more
than they do."
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Devotion Boosts Comfort
Grad Thesis Concludes
RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER
Do you fast on Yom Kippur?
riter, director and ac-
a. No
tor Woody Allen's por-
b. Some years
trayal of Jews as
c. Yes, but I drink water
diehard neurotics
d. Yes, every year, health per-
might be misguided in more
mitting
ways than one.
And, do you keep kosher?
A new study reports that a
a. Not at all
segment of metro Detroit's Jew-
b. No, but I do not eat pork
ish population is, in fact, the
c. Yes, but only at home
most content and secure of three
d. Yes, but not by the most Or-
religious groups.
Christopher Rothko, 31, re- thodox law
e. Yes, by Orthodox law
cently completed his doctoral
Dr. Rothko also included a
thesis through the University of
Michigan's graduate program in test to determine if someone is
clinical psychology. His disser-
tation examined observant and
secular Ashkenazi Jews, Polish
Catholics and Lebanese Shiite
Muslims. The purpose of the the-
sis was to determine how a reli-
gious upbringing affects the
personalities of men and women
in adulthood.
"My basic premise here is that
religion in a lot of ways will pro-
vide a source of comfort and a
buffer against life's hard
knocks," Dr. Rothko said. "It pro-
vides a degree of certainty in
people's lives. Where they're go-
ing. Why they're here. Where Christopher Rothko
they come from."
While Jews, overall, consis- an extrovert or introvert. A third
tently came out the healthiest section of the questionnaire scru-
and happiest, Dr. Rothko em- tinized psychological-minded-
phasizes that his study was not ness, the ability to reflect on one's
designed to draw comparisons own ideas.
Last autumn, Dr. Rothko sent
between interfaith groups.
"The study does, however, the confidential questionnaires
counter previous findings that to secular and observant people
have shown Jews to be less hap- in the three targeted communi-
py and more neurotic than some ties. The responses from 105
other religious and ethnic Ashkenazi Jews — all native to
metro Detroit — led Dr. Rothko
groups," he said.
Mr. Rothko's 14-page ques- to conclude that people who are
tionnaire included a number of "frum from birth" (Orthodox
standardized psychological their entire lives) seem to be
scales that asked, among other most at peace with themselves.
"I found that the religious pop-
things: Are you happy now?
Have you been happy in the ulation seemed happier and
past? Will you be happy in the freer from serious mental dis-
turbances than less religious
future?
Level of observance for Jews people, but secular people were
was determined, in part, by the a little more psychologically flex-
following multiple-choice in- ible," he said. "They were a lit-
tle more open to new ideas and
quiries.
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